Summary
Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, deserves a salute. On Nov. 10, he engineered an amendment to a pending bill that generally ends the absurdity of alien enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) suing in federal courts officials of the United States they hope to kill.
Under existing habeas corpus statutes as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Rasul v. Bush (2004), some 300 GTMO detainees have sued alleging various transgressions of constitutional rights, including a demand for dictionaries, high-speed internet access, and faster mail delivery.See the full content of this document
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A Sensible Move On Detainees
The Graham amendment strikes a more enlightened balance between winning the war against global terrorism and the civil liberties of alien enemy terrorists.
President Bush should have sought the amendment long ago. It honors the understanding of Supre...See the full content of this document
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